Oh a C121 Connie. IIRC, Some old Navy guys recently rebuilt a C-121 AWACS at the Chanute Museum. This one doesn't look as bad as the Chanute plane. Maybe because this one wasn't used to teach airman basic aircraft wiring when Chanute was still a training AFB.

HotWingConspiracy There is little sense in preserving it. Though why don't they recycle all of that metal instead of having it sit in the desert?

Many of these planes can be sold for their parts for other planes that are still flying. Think of the DC3 and C123s. This plane was sold at auction but the guy hasn't been able to figure out how to get it out or donate it. The wings are probably integrated it to the body so you can't just take the wings off and truck it out.

Any museum would wet themselves to get this plane but the logistics in moving it are daunting. Even if the got it flyable some of these airplane graveyard runways are too short for taking off. The planes that come in do so on the finest flying weather day with minimum fuel and once they hit the runway, the brakes lock up. The pilot knows this is the plane's last landing.

Wow...they shutdown an LA Freeway cause one white hispanic gets off after killing a black kid, but no one shuts down the oil fields and chemical plants that are killing black--white--hispanic--asians--dolphins--and other stuff every damn day -- o -- and no one is even arrested btw...